Chandrayaan-1: Laser payload turned on Nov 19, 2008
Initial data indicated the instrument's performance is normal. " This laser payload sends pulses of infrared laser light towards a strip of lunar surface and detects and analyzes the reflected portion of that light. The wavelength of the light used in this case is 1,064 nm. This instrument also accurately measures the altitude of the spacecraft above the lunar surface and the Moon's surface features. The LLRI will take 10 measurements per second on both, day as well as night side of the Moon and... (Techtree.com)
BJP sweeps Council bypolls Nov 4, 2008
In Belgaum, BJP nominee and former minister Shashikanth Akkappa Naik defeated Congress candidate S C Malagi by 1,418 votes. In Dharwad, BJPs Shivraj Sajjanar trounced Srinivas Mane (Congress) by 655 votes and in Kodagu, S G Medappa (BJP) defeated B G Mittoo Chengappa (Congress) by 173 votes. (Times of India)
B'lore: Have new wine in new bottle Oct 13, 2008
Wine cultivation will be encouraged in the Nandi valley, comprising of Bangalore urban, Bangalore rural and Kolar districts and Krishna valley which includes -- Bijapur, Bagalkot and Belgaum districts. According to estimates,Presently, less than one percent of grapes produced in the country are used for manufacturing wine. (India Times, India)
Dakshina Kannada DC shifted to BBMP Oct 7, 2008
B H Manjunath: Regional commissioner, Belgaum ... Ekroop Kaur: Chief executive officer, Belgaum zilla panchayat. (Times of India)
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Melbourne, FL 32935 Last Updated: 10/03/08 08:46:36 EDT. C) Relative Humidity: 75% Barometer: 29. (Florida Today)
Bollywood box-office report of the week Sep 25, 2008
20 lakhs from Belgaum, 5. 25 lakhs from Goa, 56 lakhs from Delhi city, 8 lakhs from Noida, 7. (GlamSham)
How Bajrang Dal built its muscle Sep 17, 2008
Pramod Mutalik Desai, from Belgaum, who was a full-time worker of RSS and later VHP, was chosen as its first state convener. Years before he settled in Mysore, Mutalik had dropped his caste-indicative last name. (Times of India)
New medical colleges in pipeline Aug 17, 2008
Bangalore: Cornered by a shortage of doctors and medical specialists in the country, the Centre plans to start colleges attached to hospitals run by the Employees' State Insurance Corporation (ESIC). Union minister of state for labour and employment Oscar Fernandes on Saturday said the government will start construction immediately after ascertaining how much land would be available. (Times of India)
Terror suspect held, CDs seized Aug 3, 2008
Belgaum: Police here on Saturday arrested a terror suspect and recovered three CDs with information on bomb-manufacturing and a cylinder filled with chemical gas from him. Tanvir Mulla, found moving in a suspicious manner at Indala tank, was nabbed by police, superintendent of police Sonia Narang told reporters here. (Sify.com, India)
Weather: Partly cloudy, afternoon storms likely Jul 30, 2008
Melbourne, FL 32940 Last Updated: 07/30/08 08:45:41 EDT. C) Relative Humidity: 97% Barometer: 30. (Florida Today)
K'taka hikes tax to check rise in vehicles Jul 19, 2008
Similarly, a cement zone will be established for Gulbarga, Bagalkot, Chitradurga, Belgaum and nearby districts ... An IT-biotech zone will span Mysore, Mangalore, Hubli-Dharwad, Belgaum, Shimoga and Gulbarga districts ... Ramanagara, Shimoga and Hubli-Dharwad will be earmarked for an automobile zone and a garment zone will come up in Bangalore rural, T 00004000 umkur, Kolar, Mandya, Belgaum, Bidar and Dharwad districts. (India Times, India)
Brigadier targeted for role in training Afghan army Jul 8, 2008
"Kabul is also interested in sending more officers for specialised training at the Counter-Insurgency and Jungle Warfare School in Mizoram and High-Altitude Warfare School in J&K as well as the different comma 00004000 ndo and counter-terrorism courses run at Belgaum and Bareilly," said a senior official. "The Afghan government says this is necessary since the Taliban is increasingly resorting to IED blasts and suicide bombings instead of direct face-to-face confrontations," he added. (Times of India)
Karnataka stuck in a jumbo row Jun 28, 2008
The jumbo problem began two years ago when elephants in the forests of Khanapur in Belgaum district found in Goa a new destination. For reasons best known to them, they crossed into Goa via Kolhapur. (India Times, India)
Probe into police firing in Karnataka Jun 11, 2008
"Belgaum division regional commissioner Amita Prasad will conduct a probe into the incident and submit a report to the government within ten days," Yeddyurappa told reporters after reviewing the situation at a high level meeting here. Yeddyurappa, who was visibly upset over the shocking incident that occurred 12 days after his government assumed office, said it was a "planned conspiracy to taint the image of the government.". (Sify.com, India)
Exultant BJP eyes JD(S) dissidents May 25, 2008
Belgaum will vote on Thursday in the last phase of the Karnataka elections. Being an area known to b. (NDTV.com)
Karnataka Assembly final polls begin May 22, 2008
Polling is being held in sixty-nine segments spread across eight districts of Northern Karnataka, Dharwad, Gadag, Haveri, Bidar, Gulbaga, Bijapur, Bagalakot and Belgaum ... According to sources, special precautions have been taken in communally-sensitive district Hubli and in Belgaum. (India Times)
Final phase of polling begins in Karnataka May 22, 2008
Balloting is taking place in 12,389 polling stations in the districts of Belgaum, Gulbarga, Bagalkot, Bijapur, Bidar, Gadag, Dharwad and Haveri. Over 11. (India Times, India -- Community News)
Karnataka polls: 15 % turnout till 10 am in third phase May 22, 2008
About 58,000 police personnel are maintaining vigil on 12,389 polling stations in the districts of Belgaum, Bagalkot, Bijapur, Gulbarga,Bidar, Gadag, Dharwad and Haveri. Brisk voting was witnessed in parts of Gulbarga and Dharwad where people queued up to cast votes in the morning. (India Times, India -- Community News)
Zenith Computer Launches SmartStyle PC Apr 10, 2008
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Two Indian soldiers missing in US Mar 28, 2008
The next year, US Marines came to India for an exercise at Belgaum. Immediately, the authorities got in touch with the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) for assistance in locating the two men, who were being treated on "absent without leave", the sources said, adding assistance was also sought from the Indian Consulate in San Francisco which took up the matter with the local State Department. (India Times, India -- Community News)
A long ride for this sloth bear Feb 29, 2008
He was rescued from a kalandhar a person who train bears to act in street plays in the temple-town of Savadatti, Belgaum district, on Thursday. "For the next three months, the bear will be kept under isolation to help him return to normalcy. We will also de-worm the animal," said Arun A Shah, wildlife veterinary officer of Wildlife SOS.. (India Times, India)
Goa's land prices soaring Jan 13, 2008
Panjim city is very small as compared to other cities like Belgaum and Hubli, says Mr Albuquerque. Presently, Panjim is the most expensive place to acquire land. (India Times)
Hour-by-hour forecast Jan 3, 2008
Melbourne, FL 32935 Last Updated: 01/03/08 07:15:48 EDT. C) Relative Humidity: 55% Visability: 10 miles (16 km). (Florida Today)
Complete weather forecast Dec 7, 2007
Jackson, MS 39201 Last Updated: 12/07/07 07:45:24 EDT. C) Relative Humidity: 74% Barometer: 30. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Second line ART from January next Dec 1, 2007
As on November this year, the centres providing ART in Karnataka are Bowring and Lady Curzon Hospital, Bangalore; Mysore Medical College, Mysore; Karnataka Institute of Medical Sciences, Hubli; Vijayanagar Institute of Medical Sciences, Bellary; district hospitals of Davangere, Mangalore, Belgaum, Gulbarga, Bijapur, Kolar, Raichur, Chamarajnagar, Hassan, Tumkur, Koppal, Shimoga and Bagalkot. We are happy that the Government has decided to start second line ART by January as we have been... (Hindu)
Startup Vayavya unveils automated device driver generator Oct 26, 2007
"Device generation by tools has mainly been a research topic. Those who attempted it did so purely from a hardware (device) aspect or from a software point of view," said R.K. Patil, CEO and co-founder of Vayavya (Belgaum, India). Patil said some researchers focused on "how to capture the register and its programming part, and then went on generate various device access methods. But for some reason, no attempt to capture the software needs while generating the device access methods was made.". (EETimes)
Rs. 39 crore for AIDS prevention programme Sep 22, 2007
The highest number of cases had been reported from Udupi district (1,804), followed by Dakshin Kannada (1,679), Belgaum (1,620), Bangalore City (1,483), Davangere (1,010) during the period. According to estimates, India had 5. (Hindu)
8 killed in Bangalore bus mishap Sep 16, 2007
BANGALORE: Eight persons were killed and 15 injured when a Karnataka State Transport Corporation bus fell into an open well at Parthanahally, about 10 km away from Athani Taluk in Belgaum district of Karnataka on Saturday. According to the reports the mishap occurred when the bus skidded off the road and fell into the well after the driver lost control of the vehicle. (Times of India)
Serial killer shot dead in Belgaum Sep 6, 2007
BANGALORE: Praveen Shintre, an alleged serial killer, was shot dead by police at his residence in Belgaum hours after his arrest on Wednesday night. Shintre, wanted in 38 criminal cases, including several murders and two rapes, was arrested by a special police team in Udupi and was brought to Belgaum, police said on Thursday. (India Times, India)
WEATHER: Thunderstorms possible Aug 28, 2007
Weather - 7-day Forecast Summaries. Melbourne, FL 32935 Last Updated: 08/28/07 09:30:35 EDT. (Florida Today)
Drug mafia tightens hold in Bangalore Aug 25, 2007
In July about 10Kgs of Hashish was discovered in Belgaum and earlier this month, 2 Kgs of heroin was found at the city railway station. After interrogation it is believed that this present haul of Brown sugar originated from a supplier in Rajasthan, and Bangalore was probably a transit point for an unknown final destination. (NDTV.com)
The Nokia E90 Communicator Available Jul 2, 2007
With the launch of Nokia E90, we are bringing an altogether new and expanded view of business mobility to the market place, as well as a culmination of power, performance, and productivity (Techtree.com)
Stingless sentence, dud fine on Telgi Jun 29, 2007
His refusal to name even one today disappointed many, including hotelier Jayant V. Tinaikar, the whistleblower from Telgi s hometown in Belgaum who lives under constant police guard. Telgi has ensured a comfortable stay in Yerawada jail (near Pune) in his last days by keeping his lips sealed, Tinaikar said from an undisclosed location. (Calcutta Telegraph)
ACT Alert: Heavy Rains and Flash Floods in Andhra Pradesh, India Jun 27, 2007
According to preliminary estimates, more than 1,300 houses have suffered complete or partial damage in the districts of Gulbarga, Bellary, Belgaum, Dakshina Kannada and Gadag. KERALA: More than 43 people have lost their lives. (AlertNet)
Heavy rains kill 13o in 4 states Jun 25, 2007
In Karnataka, there was no let up in the downpour in the districts of Kodagu, the origin of the river Cauvery, Belgaum, Bijapur, Raichur, Gulbarga, Udupi and Dakshina Kannada, where normal life was severely disrupted. Three persons were washed away by flash floods in Belgaum district on Saturday while two died in Nabapura village when a house collapsed ... A man was crushed to death when a wall collapsed in a village in Belgaum on Saturday night. (Asian Age)
Two die in factory blasts in South India May 6, 2007
Most of them were immediately shifted to a hospital in Belgaum in the area. The factory makes 250 tonnes of starch a day. (People's Daily Online, China)
Singh hopeful of Siachen talks positive outcome Apr 6, 2007
"No withdrawal or reduction of troops from Jammu and Kashmir is on the cards," he told reporters in the southern city of Belgaum. "Pointing out that constant vigil was necessary in Kashmir to check infiltration, which would be on the rise during summer, Singh clarified that the levels of deployment of forces in the state were decided on the basis of a constant review of the situation," PTI said. (Pakistan Dawn)
Army Chief says withdrawal of troops from JK not on cards Apr 6, 2007
Belgaum, April 05: The question of withdrawing or reducing troops from Jammu and Kashmir is not on the cards at present, Army Chief Gen J J Singh said on Thursday. "No withdrawal or reduction of troops from Jammu and Kashmir is on the cards," he told reporters here. (Zee News)
Intel's World Ahead Moves To Tier II Institutes Apr 1, 2007
Intel India has announced the following ten institutes: College of Engineering, Guindy; Harcourt Butler Technological Institute, Kanpur; International Institute of Information Technology, Bengaluru; International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad; International Institute of Information Technology, Pune; Kalasalingham University, Krishnan Koil; PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore; Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology rch Academy (SASTRA), Thanjavur; Thiagarajar College of... (EFYTimes)
Intel to Develop Institutes as COE Mar 30, 2007
We hope that through continuous interaction with Intel mentors, students would be better prepared to face the demands of the industry in their future workplaces (Techtree.com)
All set for PU exams Mar 28, 2007
The suspended supervisor is S N Katkar, an assistant teacher at the Government Boys School at Mandoli village in Belgaum taluk. Loading. (India Times, India)
First conviction in Karnataka Mar 24, 2007
Telgi and his associates Irfan Ahmed of Bangalore , Badruddin of Belgaum, Wazir Ahmed of Tumkur, Pradeep Kumar of Bangalore face charges of selling fake stamp paper, hatching a criminal conspiracy, cheating and other grave offences. The maximum punishment they can be awarded for these offences is life imprisonment. (Times of India)
Tackling water crisis Mar 14, 2007
Asserting that there was no dearth of funds, he said that officials have been told to complete pending projects in Belgaum revenue division before April 15. On the plight of sugarcane growers, Ravindranath, who also holds the sugar portfolio, said he had instructed sugar factories to continue crushing of sugarcane till April-end. (India Times, India)
Welcome drink: K'taka to raise toast to tourism Mar 12, 2007
The grape-growing districts of Bangalore (Urban and Rural) and Kolar called Nandi Valley and those of Bijapur, Bagalkot and Belgaum Krishna Valley will be promoted in a major way, horticulture minister Shashikanth Akkappa Naik said ... "Bijapur and Belgaum are heritage centres, and since they are close to Goa, a lot of tourists flock there. Now, wine tours will be an added attraction," sources added. (India Times, India -- Community News)
All 280 Pune revellers sent to custody Mar 6, 2007
The youths were from various parts of the country Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Belgaum, Chennai, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. Related Stories. (India Times, India -- Community News)
Proud Belgaum Feb 8, 2007
BELGAUM: Lieutenant General Dilip Desai, director-general, information systems of the Indian Army and a native of Uchgoan near here, has been awarded the Param Vishisht Seva Medal in January by the President for his distinguished services ... Lt Gen Desai completed his schooling from St Xavier's School, Kolhapur, and King George's School, Belgaum, prior to joining the National Defence Academy in 1963. (India Times, India)
HIV tests mandatory for K'taka couples Feb 5, 2007
Most cases are from 12 high-risk districts including Bagalkot and Belgaum. The prevalence rate in some districts is as high as 3. (Moneycontrol.com)
Motorists on cell Jan 14, 2007
BELGAUM: Talking over cell phone while driving may be commonplace for youngsters, but not so for Kiran Patil, a college student ... Belgaum may have only recorded the first such case where a motorist talking on the cell phone was involved in a fatal accident. (India Times, India)
